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** Secondarily, it might explain why {{spoiler|Dalek Caan}} went nuts doing the samesuch staring in the expanse between ''Evolution of the Daleks'' and ''Journey's End''. Sort of an 'Abyss Looks Also' type thing. Both Ninth and Tenth Doctors menntion that you're not supposed to stare at the raw power of time--ortime—or at least that if you do, it's bad new bears for your functioning brain. If normal time-travel gives your average schmo a headache (try NOT to think about the [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] for the episode ''Blink'' for instance), imagine what viewing all times and all things does--todoes—to ''any'' sentient. Including {{spoiler|Rose, Donna, and even the Master}} (well, except for that whole ''rat-tat-tat-tat'' business).

* And perhaps the genocide hit a bit too close to home - he knew quite well he'd done the same, and probably would again, and it scared him.

** Nah, episode 3 of ''[[Torchwood Miracle Day (TV)|Torchwood: Miracle Day]]'' shows he cares about immortal men not receiving STDs and prefers protection.

** Not so much daughter, but [[Opposite SexGender Clone]]. [[Squick|Eww.]]

** In order to take over the TARDIS, the now physical Dreamlord half chameleon-arched River, so she has confused memories of her previous regenerations and has created the illusory memory that she knew the Doctor, a separate individual, when in reality she was him, which she actually suspects but is unwilling to face.

** She was in prison for killing the Dreamlord, who at some point, somehow, became an important political figure or some such (perhaps he publicly took credit for all the times the Doctor saved Earth in the past, after all he also IS the Doctor). Now, River suspects the Dreamlord was part of her and part of the Doctor, that is why she allowed herself to be imprisoned after killing him and is reluctant to talk about the man she killed.

** Eleven will find out about all of this when meeting River for the first time from her perspective and it will be left to him to decide if he should do something about those events, if he should prevent that regeneration from happening, and that is why "everything changes", because never before had the doctor been given the chance to prevent his established death-regeneration before and meddle with his own timeline, denying existence to a future self he actually knows. He will know by then that his ultimate destiny, should he not change it, is to be killed by himself (River killing the Dreamlord), and be imprisoned forever in the library (what happened to River).

** If she is a regeneration of the Doctor, this would be the first time that the Doctor would go unannounced as the titular Doctor and finally choosing a name. I don't see the Doctor giving up such a prestigious title after almost a thousand years... unless it's a [[Stable Time Loop]] thing where this regeneration happens and then ''he/she'' recognizes himself as River Song from his past and aptly decides that to be his name. He would have also sentenced himself to a virtual suicide as he already knew that as the Tenth incarnation, he was able to 'save'' River Song by putting her into that computer. [[Fate Worse Than Death]]?

** You know, Carole Ann Ford's still alive. I can imagine Moff writing a story where the Doctor has an adventure with an older Susan, but something horrible happens and she's forced to regenerate -- andregenerate—and River is the result.

* Tricking the Doctor into believing that they have a relationship. We know she's a criminal, and is keeping a few things from him, and when they meet in ''Silence In The Library'' it's concievable that she's already wormed her way into his life with bluffing and time manipulation.

* A disguised, time-traveling [[Marilyn Monroe]] who faked her death before setting off to find the Doctor...Hey, they ''are'' [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/2010 CSACS A Christmas Carol/Recap|kinda sorta technically married]].

* Amy. Amy POND, RIVER song? It's plausible.

** What, it's possible!

* Completely unrelated to any previous characters

** It ''would'' be like [[Steven Moffat]] to completely throw us in a loop.

== [[Doctor Who (TV)|Captain Jack]] is [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Captain Jack]] ==

Captain Jack Sparrow eventually finds and drinks from the fountain of youth, but loses his memories as he is de-aged. This goes on for a while; Jack slips through the centuries, careful after a few mishaps (the Jack of the movies has already messed this up at least once) not to drink away the location and nature of the fountain as he scours the globe for a more practical means of remaining immortal. As the world marches on without him and the bulldozers come through to pave over the fountain, he bottles roughly a lifespan's worth (in his eternally scheming appreciation that a bottle of youth might be extremely useful one day) and decides to grow old and die already. The world had lost its luster for him.

Unfortunately, his prolonged use of the fountain left him with a much longer than average lifespan. He lives to see the twenty-first century, when "everything changes"; but the technology on earth still doesn't facilitate space piracy, and he's now a decrepit old man and no match for the Somali pirates. So he hunts down a Time Agent from the future who's doing whatever Time Agents do and barters a lift to around 5000 AD. Here, he drains his last bottle of Youth, keeping only his most fundamental characteristics (including his womanizing nature, his taste for adventure, his insistence on being called "Captain", and his tastefully dated fashion sense) and gets re-brought up by the Harkness family.

== Jack is not a fixed point in time ==

== [[Portal (Video Gameseries)|GlaDOS]] was one of the Cybermen in "The Next Doctor". ==

== The Time Agency is an offshoot of Torchwood with Jack Harkness as its director. ==

Torchwood was all but destroyed in the battle of Canary Wharf. Jack rebuilt it in honour of the Doctor to keep the Earth safe. We know Torchwood is famous enough that the name lasts for 200,000 years at least and becomes known throughout the galaxy; it's mentioned in "Bad Wolf" and "The Satan Pit". Jack Harkness is semi-immortal, and {{spoiler|lives for approximately 5 billion years (if the theory below is correct)}}. As a child, he may have been the first person recruited for the Time Agency -- possiblyAgency—possibly by [[Stable Time Loop|the older version of himself]]?

* Not just an offshoot of Torchwood--itTorchwood—it's Torchwood and UNIT merged into one organization.

** Maybe he's not really totally ''immortal'' at all. He's connected directly to the Vortex, and the Doctor can feel the entire timeline in his head: maybe the act of sensing the vortex directly through Jack is blocking out everything, and the Doctor is only ''assuming'' Jack is immortal because all he can see when he looks at Jack is the vortex, and the vortex feels timeless.

Jack is the ultimate impossible thing. He's like a straight line in the middle of all the timey wimey wibbly lines of the universe. In fact, this troper suspects that the only reason the universe accepts his existence at all is because it eventually finds a way to circumvent the whole Immortal thing so Jack can finally die, possibly as {{spoiler|the Face of Boe}} or not, depending on your leaning. It's possible that his presence somehow influences his environment, resulting in his creating circumstances which cannot be changed.

* Makes total sense in continuity. He seemed to know exactly what would happen when Rose did it.

* Sam Tyler was Pete Tyler's brother, and ''[[Life On Mars]]'' was a secret ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' spinoff all along.

This is also the reason no alien technology or evidence got to the public until just recently -- Torchwoodrecently—Torchwood was confiscating the majority of it. The splitting point would probably be "World War Three", wherein most of UNIT's British alien research specialists were electrocuted by the Slitheen. Torchwood lost their direct line, and both evidence and technology got out -- toout—to the point where, just a few years later, the United Nations has its own ''flying aircraft carrier''.

* If Torchwood was running under UNIT, then surely the Doctor, who spent several years as UNIT's unpaid scientific advisor and remains on good terms with [[The Brigadier|the head of UNIT UK]], would be ''more'' likely to know about them?

* Perhaps Torchwood didn't realize he was the Doctor when he was working at UNIT. Two called himself John Smith, and Three and Four continued this. Torchwood was looking for "James McCrimmon", the pseudonym Ten used with Queen Victoria --andVictoria—and UNIT did imprison the original Jamie McCrimmon in a hospital during ''The Invasion''.

* A variant on the above: In the serial "Time-Flight", the Doctor refers to Department C19, the government body that funds UNIT's British contingent. Several [[Expanded Universe]] novels feature the Doctor exposing senior members of C19 as stockpiling Silurian Plague and Cyberguns for the good of Britain. In hindsight, these could easily be [[Retcon|retconnedretcon]]ned as early skirmishes between the Doctor (and UNIT) and Torchwood, even though he never learns who they are.

* A number of people suspect that the Lucy and "skies are made of diamonds" were both an intentional Beatles gag by [[Russell T. Davies]]. This doesn't invalidate the theory.

It's known that in the future, "ordinary" humanity develops the technology to time travel, although in "Utopia", Professor Yana mentions that this technology was lost. He was wrong -- itwrong—it was ''used''. Project Utopia and {{spoiler|the Toclafane}} are just a sad sidebar to the ''real'' plan to escape the collapse of the universe: evacuating from the end of time to the ''beginning'' of time. The reason that apparently contemporary planets like Traken or Trion are inhabited by basically human "aliens" is that the "aliens" are descendants of the wraparound colonists. This theory gets interesting when you consider that the Time Lords are supposedly one of the oldest races in the universe, and slightly headache-inducing if you think about it too much.

** As a bit of icing on that cake, a roleplaying game called [[Time Lords]], originally released in the 1980's, posited that the only race in the entire history of the universe (who eventually became known as a Guardians) to completely master the science of time travel were also the LAST race to come into existence in the universe. Coming into their own at the far end of history, they were forced to make the most out of limited resources, which led to a number of unique innovations, like being able to cram [[Bigger Onon the Inside|a warehouse full of electronics into something the side of a 20-sided die]]. Once they perfected the time travel technology, they used it to shift their entire civilization back to the very beginning of time, where the massive abundance of resources and their incredible technology (as compared to the younger races only just coming into being) led to their becoming decadent and corrupt, until they were ultimately destroyed by one of their own creations. With very few changes, that scenario fits the "humans become Time Lords" theory quite nicely. It also explains why no one saw a problem with Leela and Andred hooking up, why the Doctor and Donna were compatible in the first place, and how the proposed storyline where Ace is accepted into the Time Lord academy would have been possible - the two races are genetically different points on a long timeline, but still interrelated.

There were many more people who died on the Gamestation. Given the amount of power that Rose/Bad Wolf was wielding, there's no reason she couldn't have brought them all back; Jack was just the only one we saw. And if they got brought back the same way as Jack, they probably also share Jack's "condition", which would mean that somewhere in the future there's a large number of immortal humans running around.

* Does this mean that Rose is somehow responsible for the Immortals in [[Highlander (Franchise)|Highlander]]?

*** Maybe that's how "The Face of Boe" got started. Captain Jack got his head cut off and had his body separated from it.

In "Blink", there's a scene where the human characters are inside the TARDIS, and the Angels are rocking it back and forth while the lights flicker. They're in an otherwise empty room, but they still can't be seen moving -- theymoving—they just change positions when the lights go out. So who's watching them, and preventing them from moving when the lights are on? We are.

== [[Russell T. Davies]] is the Grey Guardian. ==

* ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' is a gambit by the Monkey Time Reapers to corral RTD into his own personal universe, so that they can cleanse the Whoniverse without his opposition. It appears to be working, but the Smoke Guardian, Steve Moffat, is moving to fill the gap.

The [[httpwikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_<!--Doctor 28Doctor_Who29(Doctor Who)#Age |Wikipedia page]] points out that the Doctor claims to be only 900 years in the new series, while he's claimed to be older in the original series and the Expanded Universe. Also in the new series, the Doctor starts having relationships with humans who seem to be around 20ish. Maybe because of some Galactic/Time Lord law, a thousand year old man can't be doing it with someone that young, but a 900 year old one ''can''. Alternatively, he could just be trying to delude himself, since he thinks a couple hundred years is less squicky. -->

* Accused by who? All his people are DEAD.

* Nah, it's nothing so [[Squick|squickysquick]]y. Let's see: being vague about one's age, chasing after much younger women, a sudden fondness for leather jackets; [http://comics.shipsinker.com/?id=23 there's a term for ''that'' sort of behaviour.]

Somehow, in the events of Doomsday, Pete Tyler manages to go from being an annoying, ineffectual nuisance in an alternate reality to manipulating every other character into doing exactly what he wants (see the previous WMG). What's more, he antagonizes The Doctor while winning his respect (a definite Master quality), and even in this reality, is able to deduce more about the workings of time travel than even Shakespeare could. And, let us be honest: we are talking about a man who is important enough to have the ear of the President, due to the success of his "health drink business". This is the equivalent of a Coca-Cola executive being invited to Cabinet meetings, then conveniently being in the exact right place to lead the New World Order after a massive upheaval -- whoupheaval—who but The Master could pull it off?

Turns out Pete Tyler DID die in the alternate universe, but The Master of that universe regenerated into his body double, which explains all of the clever things he was able to do, and also why they were never able to conceive children. Also, this Master is a good guy, making him the [[Evil Twin]] of the main universe Master.

The Sonic Screwdriver in the new series behaves more like a magic wand than a piece of technology. Magic exists in the ''Doctor Who'' universe, as evidenced by "The Shakespeare Code", and the Doctor can impose his will directly on the universe without any mechanical device - for instance, {{spoiler|opening the TARDIS door with one snap of his fingers}}. Time Lords are wizards, possibly from the same race as Gandalf and the Istarii, who have a similar ability to regenerate.

* River makes a comment in one episode that she hates good wizards in fairy tales because they always turn out to be the Doctor.

In the AU, the reapers killed the Doctor and Rose to prevent them interfering. They did this by removing Rose and The Doctor from time. Without Rose, Pete lives. Without the Doctor, we get airships and "Ricky". Apparently sometime after (in his timeline) the episode, The Doctor would alter history in such a way that we'd get our airshipless/black-presidentless Britain.

== "The Wire" from "The Idiot's Lantern" is Koh the Face Stealer from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' ==

== The Strogg of [[Quake II (Video Game)|Quake II]] and [[Quake IV (Video Game)4|Quake IV]] are a product of Nanogenes gone haywire ==

Another Chula medical ship crashed somewhere where the human marines were waging war. The nanogenes were released, and they came across a messed-up corpse of a soldier inside a destroyed vehicle. Commence "healing" á la [[Doctor Who (TV)|the Empty Child]]: fallen weapon gets integrated into the severed forearm, body and limbs plus parts of the wreckage are haphazardly stitched together, and voilá: a Strogg am I.

Being strong-willed and good at gymnastics, Rose Tyler was one of the potential slayers activated by Willow in the last episode of [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]. That would explain why she didn't explode from taking in the Vortex.

*** It wouldn't be the first time shows that share a universe made this kind of mistake. For instance, Seinfeld shares a universe with Mad About You, but features an episode where George watches Mad About You.

Dressing in black. Plans for world domination. Hypnotic abilities. Somewhat melodramatic. Those two could be brothers... or the same person. In one of his many desperate attempts to stave off death, the Time Lord gave vampirism a go, keeping under the radar as not to attract the Doctor's attention. Unfortunately, this eventually attracted the Slayer's attention. Although his body was killed (and then, eventually, bashed into dust), anyone who watches ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' knows that the Master [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|can't be done away with quite that easily]].

Or an equivalent. This ties in with the theory about the Doctor committing a slow form of suicide, but with a twist - he's not trying to die, just reach the point of his final regeneration when the Valeyard will be created and travel back to the time of "The Trial of a Time Lord". As far as he knows, this is his only way into Gallifrey's time-locked past (due to a combination of predestination and other [[Timey-Wimey Ball|timey wimey things]]). The plan is a [[Xanatos Gambit]] to either create a different potential entity who can go back and change things or to follow the Valeyard through when he goes and avert the Time War that way.

== The [[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]] universe is the home of the ultimate authority on universes. ==

Rose Tyler, in "Turn Left," says she's been in contact with Control about Donna and the situation her decision made. CONTROL, hmm?

The Doctor snapped sometime during the Time War and became a [[Fallen Hero]], destroying the Time Lords. When the Master learned what had become of the Time Lords, he, outraged at the Doctor's destruction of their people, decided to avenge Gallifrey. He took over the Doctor's precious planet Earth, which the Master surmised the Doctor turned into the disturbingly amoral, but very useful, Toclafane. He gloated in his victory--beingvictory—being a really nasty dictator toward the planet he blames for the Doctor's earlier [[Face Heel Turn]] and slide toward the Valeyard was just a bonus. Luckily, he decided to keep Torchwood around because he realized that the Doctor had made the Earth a [[Weirdness Magnet]]. {{spoiler|Having no qualms about tearing the universe open, he used Torchwood 1's tech to break across to the other side, and Rose Tyler informed him about the coming Darkness.}} He accurately surmised it was {{spoiler|the Daleks}} and prepared all the weaponry shown in Last of the Time Lords specifically to wipe them out. He kept knowledge of this from the Doctor because he suspected the Doctor would either oppose, halt, or avenge any attempts to destroy them, or, worse, destroy the Earth to get at them.

== The Doctor is [[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|the Avatar.]] ==

In reality, the Ninth Doctor is still running the show. Most of the events of the series proceed similarly, but the consequences of having a somewhat smaller ego mean that the Master never took power, Harriet Jones is leading Britain's Golden Age, and the Clone (if he exists) has been allowed to stay. On the downside, he's using a prosthetic hand because he couldn't regnerate the one that was lost in the Sycorax invasion.

They are just happening in a modified form. Obviously, it would take more than one year to build up enough faith amongst the people to destroy the Master's psychic field; it has taken over 30 years. Martha was forced to travel back in time and whispered the tale of the Doctor to one Sydney Newman, who then carried it onto Terry Nation and Verity Lambert who then carried it on throughout the generations. All the stories in Doctor Who are true enough, any continuity lapses are due to faulty memory and a sort of chinese whispers.

** Is it like some modified form of [[Highlander (Franchise)|Highlander]]?

== The reason Ten gave a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] to the Family of Blood: ==

* So [[Humans Are Special]] ''and'' [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]], with a sideorder of [[What the Hell, Hero?]]? Yes!

What else are you going to do with a ''flying bus''?

* It would explain why all versions of the Doctor who have met Sarah Jane love her.

== The Racnoss are related to Adric ==

== Adam's fate (kicked out of the Tardis with a device in his head) was [[Retcon|retconnedretcon]]ned ==

Therefore, ''Dalek'' was wiped out of history, and Adam never came on board the Tardis in the first place.

== [[Russell T. Davies]] have already [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhovs Gunned]] themself out of the "Only thirteen regenerations"-mess ==

Once the Time Lords realized that they were forced to fight in the battlefield, they gave their soldiers in the Time War a chance to survive -- asurvive—a device that re-wrote their DNA. It turned them human; but, more important, when they became Time Lords again, it ''"rewrote their DNA'' so that they would have a full twelve regenerations, since they would presumably have used a lot of them if they were resorting to becoming human. Remember, this is the series that gave us ''"The Time Lords only resurrected me because they knew I'll be the perfect warrior for a Time War."''

Think about it. In her appearances throughout the season, her priority is to get word to the Doctor that 'the Darkness' is coming. We know she knows who Donna is and how significant she is even before the events of 'Turn Left'; yet, in 'Partners in Crime', when Donna is standing right there, about to board the TARDIS, Rose just turns and walks away with a sad look on her face. Even if you assume that Rose doesn't know who Donna is yet, she could still leave a message at UNIT HQ or try to get in touch with Torchwood or something. Her expression suggests that she does know who Donna is and how things are going to play out for her. (Perhaps Other Ten explained what was bound to happen to Donna after they were dropped off on the alternate earth). Rose used the dimension-hopping equipment one last time before the barriers between universes came down, perhaps hoping to warn Donna, perhaps hoping to see the real Doctor one last time (perhaps hoping to apologise for kissing his double right in front of him!) - but in the end, she restricted herself to bearing silent witness to the beginning of something she'd just experienced the end of.

* Alternatively, his name is "Who". It turns out [[I Am Not Shazam|he is Shazam]], and also [[Who's Onon First?|on first]].

Crossing over timelines is A Bad Thing, as "Father's Day" showed. However, it's possible ("Father's Day" again, "Smith and Jones"); it's supposed to be dangerous, not out of the question. This has always been [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TimeyWimeyBall[Timey-Wimey Ball|explained]] as being a question of crystallization of time (or the Blimovich Limitation Effect); once a time traveler reaches certain events, they are part of those events and cannot withdraw from them. But the Time War is not said to be crystallized; it is said to be outright locked. The term used is time-lock, which can be broken (at great cost -- incost—in the case of Dalek Caan, his sanity). This would contradict previous explanations - unless the "time lock" is something different entirely.

* It's probably something similar to (although far more advanced than) the "time lock" program Tosh developed for Torchwood -- aTorchwood—a technological method of preventing time travel to a certain time and place.

It's only a matter of time before the Cybus universe gets revisited. Other Ten has already committed "genocide", demonstrating a marked ability to be [[Darker and Edgier|darker and edgier]] than the regular Doctor. His abbreviated lifespan puts a sense of urgency to his work - he'll be wanting to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations from him as soon as he can.

* And perhaps "fix" Donna as well in all of this. In a way, she's a living fob watch. Couple that with the "original" Doctor all but rejecting him for being genocidal and dumping him on Rose, and he's bound to resent such implications down the line (especially because Rose can't help BUT compare him to the original). The threefold man will be looking to be make himself whole again -- withagain—with the Valeyard as the dominant personality, one who TRULY believes in [[Knight Templar|"no second chances"]].

* If you squint a little, then the Master's statement about the Valeyard coming from somewhere betweeen the Doctor's "twelth and final" regeneration ''doesn't'' rule out Other Ten being the Valeyard's first incarnation. All it requires is for the Tenth Doctor (and by the same token, Other Ten) to have technically entered their 11th life when the averted regeneration took place (which makes Matt Smith's impending incarnation the 12th Doctor, not the 11th) and for the deleted scene where the Doctor gave Other Ten a piece of TARDIS coral to be [[Canon|canonicalcanon]]ical. From there, Other Ten simply needs to grow a TARDIS within his human lifespan using Donna's instructions, travel to a point in Pete's World's future where nanogenes have been invented, and then use nanogenes to purge the human DNA from his body. Then there wouldn't be anything jamming Other Ten's ability to regenerate, meaning that he should still have two regenerations remaining like the Doctor has. Although Other Ten will now have a Time Lord lifespan, he's still conscious of his limited number of regenerations and thus sets about stealing the Doctor's regenerations to extend his own life, requiring him to break through into his dimension of origin. Somewhere along the line, Rose is going to question Other Ten's descent into darkness, perhaps even being responsible for Other Ten's eventual regeneration (ala Chantho and the Master) should Other Ten become hostile toward her during the course of his [[Face Heel Turn]]. Other Ten retreats into the TARDIS upon sustaining fatal injuries, deadlocking the TARDIS closed to prevent anyone from following him, and then undergoes his first regeneration. Upon examining his new body in a mirror, he recognizes it as the familiar visage of the Valeyard and realizes that he is currently at the heart of a [[Stable Time Loop]] that will allow him to travel back in time to Gallifrey prior to the Time War without losing his mind like Dalek Caan did. Having embraced the persona of the Valeyard, Other Ten travels back in time to where the rift between universes can be breached without causing reality itself to collapse and then travels to Gallifrey shortly before the Sixth Doctor's trial, offering to help the Time Lord High Council frame the Doctor in exchange for his remaining lives. Behind the scenes, the Valeyard secretly converts his own TARDIS into a Paradox Machine so he can avert the stable time loop at the last moment without getting eaten by time monkeys. However, unbeknownst to the Valeyard, the Master (in his Ainley incarnation) has been observing his activities for some time and begins making moves of his own to undermine what he sees as a threat greater than that posed by the Doctor himself. Despite the Master's interference, the trial goes ahead as planned; the Valeyard remains poised to avert the time loop and emerge victorious. Unfortunately, the plan hits a snag; events proceed as the Valeyard remembers them in spite of the Paradox Machine, and he survives at the last moment only by using the Matrix to seize control of the Keeper. From there, the Valeyard/Other Ten's whereabouts remain unknown.

# He realized they could not be negotiated with.

# Their numbers meant that, even if their "reality bomb" was stopped, they would in and of themselves be a force of extermination to reality almost on par with thar bomb -- somethingbomb—something that the Doctor never seems to get through his head.

== Donna's [[Victory -Guided Amnesia]] was just a ruse. ==

Oh, yes, the DoctorDonna will return. And she'll team up with Jenny, Martha, and Sarah Jane to form "The Girls From N.U.R.S.E.", a blatant ''[[CharliesCharlie's Angels]]'' spoof readily picked up by American markets due to the fact that it makes a hell of a lot more sense than ''Cleopatra 2525'' ever did. Special guest stars include Rose for wacky parallel-universe hijinks and Joanna Lumley's 13th Doctor (from ''Curse of Fatal Death'') for a [[Very Special Episode]] about Jenny's lack of stable parental figures.

Everyone assumes that River Song will meet the Doctor at some point in his personal future, they'll have great adventures and then split up, and then she'll accidentally contact a younger Doctor for the Forest episode. But she mentions him being able to open his TARDIS with a snap of his fingers, and he says that it's impossible. At the end, he does it. There are only two ways that can make sense:

* They did, or will do, all kinds of romantic stuff together -- andtogether—and she's "not just anybody" to him. He could only have told her his name under a very special circumstance... like a marriage vow, perhaps?

* Alternatively, she's a canon [[Expy]] for Expanded Universe companion [[Bernice Summerfield/Characters|Bernice Summerfield]] who is ''also''

##a space archaeologist

##from the future

##has shagged the Doctor.

Because it would have killed Donna if she hadn't been [[Victory -Guided Amnesia|mindwiped]], and [[Good Is Not Nice|the Doctor]] doesn't exactly think Handy is all that and a bag of jelly babies. Why inflict someone you think is potentially genocidal on another universe if you don't want him in your own?

** In a deleted scene on the dvd extras, Ten gives 10.5 a piece of TARDIS to grow - that doesn't imply punishment to me, so much as a chance to start again.

And her personal Doctor is aware of this. Nearing the end of his last incarnation, he and River begin to collate a diary of his entire existence (though likely River doesn't realise its significance beyond wibbly wobbly convenience). Previously, though the [[Expanded Universe]] is fond of its [[Continuity Porn]], most televised Doctors have seldom mentioned preceding adventures in all but the most passing of [[Continuity Nod|Continuity Nods]]s, and River's diary seems quite at odds with this behaviour. As it happens, River is in a uniquely suited position to compile such a diary. The "one time" he could ever tell a companion his name? When he's on his final incarnation, and knows it's the choice between telling someone or taking his name's secret (whatever it may be) to the grave. Their husband-wife banter is simply a running joke between them.

''Note: This a different take on several theories floating around that Donna is the Rani.''

* Romana figured that the end of the Time War would mean the end of the Time Lords, so she did as much as she could, then regenerated, Chameleon Arched herself, and hid on Earth as Donna. The large ring so prominently featured in shots of Donna? Her equivalent of a fob-watch. Her Donna personality didn't want to go with the Doctor at first, but then the subliminal memories caused her to seek him out. Donna can't handle the Doctor's brain because as Donna, she has a human physiology. Something in the specials will trigger the ring, and cause her to revert to Romana, just in time to make a [[Heroic Sacrifice]].

Same as above, but Nine's unheeded suspicions were correct. Eleven or 13 (after using [[Retroactive Preparation]] by way of the [[Write Back to Thethe Future]] method or setting up an [[Exposition Beam]]) erased Nine's and/or (if Eleven) his own memories of the event so the Valeyard wouldn't remember what happened and Nine through Whichever could live without the guilt.

** True, but that one is merged into another guess, that Jack is a fixed point is not nessecarily BECAUSE of that scene. It could be something else.

Davros, a kid at heart, went to watch Cartoon Network on his portable TV. But as you

know, most of CN was taken over by...you guessed it, CN Real! Angry, Davros went on

to make plans for a "Reality TV Bomb" which was evventually shortened to Reality Bomb. The Doctor and co. either misunderstood him or liked CN Real. Caan manipulated Davros because he still wanted to watch Survivor:Skaro Edition.

If he isn't the Face of Boe (either because he was messing with The Doctor or because that really was just a coincidental nickname), and thus does die, the universe would be full of Jacks that hit the end of the universe and went back in time. Eventually, Jack finds a way to [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence]] and starts living outside of time. I chose the Time Vortex specifically because this is why it and Rose made Jack immortal: Because if he wasn't made immortal, the Vortex itself wouldn't exist. Funnily enough, this means Jack got into Rose's pants before the Doctor could, even if was only by wearing them while possessing her.

** This is a bit like the whole Barry Allen thing they had in the DC comics ''Crisis On Infinite Earths'', where the Flash upon death ''became'' the lightning bolt which gave him his powers in the first place. This is interetsing (and actually doesn't nessecarily undo the Face of Boe thing.)

{{quote| '''Bad Wolf:''' ''I create myself.''}}

It seems like Doctor is leaving a steady trail of [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Guns]]s that are surely going to shoot him in the ass someday. He's left a sonic screwdriver in a bin and a diary of his exploits in The Library. He got Martha to get rid of Earth's Self-Destruct system... though that self-destruct system was a lose-lose situation.

** The sonic screwdriver and diary are in the Library, and the Library is sealed and infested by hordes of Vashta Nerada which will skin alive any living creature that enters their domain after their amnesty with the Doctor expires. Furthermore, the diary is one book in a collection of ''billions of other books''. Good luck finding it that quickly under those circumstances.

* There are several potentially trouble-causing [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Guns]]s assoicated with the Eleventh Doctor, but unless you count the Time Cracks, he doesn't drop them in places; they are present in his TARDIS. In "Eleventh Hour" and "Vincent and the Doctor", it is shown that there are certain devices in the TARDIS that Eleven is afraid of using or viewing. This may have been what caused the TARDIS to explode (or nearly explode). It also explains why Eleven disagreed with his TARDIS manual.

== "[[Time Crash|The exact size of Belgium]]" is a code set as a [[Shout -Out]] by an elder Tenth doctor, or the Eleventh or Twelfth Doctor. ==

The TARDIS fused at least two of herself, but the Davison Doctor and the Tennant Doctor never fused because they were separate regenerations. Ten either fused with his later incarnation, or Ten/Eleven/Twelve were out of the ship. "The exact size of Belgium" was later set as the code which means, "The exact size of 'big enough that we're [[The HitchhikersHitchhiker's Guide to Thethe Galaxy|**** ]]ed'."

It WAS crazy mind you, but not that crazy. Why would it be a good idea to spare these genocidal nutbars when he's so ruthlessy dispatched other dangerous enemies? [[Not Quite Dead|Because they keep coming back.]] [[Genre Savvy|And he knows it will happen.]] So the Doctor figures, rather than seemingly killing them, and then being surprised when they return and start wrecking shit, it's better to keep them alive and watch them himself, like he had intended to do to the Master at the end of series 3 (you know, the guy who got shot, and came [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]). This is especially prudent with the Master, because the Doctor has seen the lengths his old [[Friendly Enemy|Frenemy]] will go to survive ([[WTHWhat the Hell, Casting Agency?|Eric Roberts...My God!!]]) and realizes it's better to not give him a chance to start fresh. It doesn't really justify everything, but it's a possible ideas about what he was thinking

It was a send-off to all of them, and to hand the reins over to Steven Moffat. To be symbolic, the last companion he visited was Rose (who was the first in Series 1), and to nail it in further many traces of RTD are being removed one by one in the new season (all the recent Dalek invasions and ''The Next Doctor'' are now [[Ret -Gone]], and the last RTD-era Daleks were [[Killed Off for Real|killed off]]). This means (sadly) that there will be no more adventures with [[Cool Old Guy|Wilfred Mott]] or any possible chance that Donna Noble will ever recover, outside of [[Fanon]].

How do most people react when they are told they are going to die? They go through 5-7 different stages. It's hard to tell when he was specifically doing what, but when first told of the prophecy by Ood Sigma, he is surprised, and this happens again when Carmen says the same thing in Planet of the Dead. He seems to be trying to avoid thinking about it in Waters of Mars for most of the series, and his attempt to break time like a twig could be both anger (at the thought of dying), and a form of bargaining, only he's trying to set the terms. It's not "if I do this for you, you'll let me live," it's "I'm gonna do this, and you have no choice but to let me live!" And it worked like [[Ate His Gun|clock....]] [[Boom! Headshot!|err...]] Moving on. Now we come to the End of Time, and when you actually look at it, you realize that he's at the final step: Acceptance. He went into this adventure knowing he would die (something that had never happened before, at least as early as it did) and up until the [[Hope Spot]], he's clearly come to terms with it. It can't be stopped, which is why Wilf knocking 4 times was even more devestating. No only had he been given hope of surviving the knocking man prophecy, but said prophecy was brought about by his friend, who was only their because he had wanted to prevent the death of the Doctor. Doesn't totally banish the Wangst, but it makes it a little more understandable. You'd be pissed too if after accepting the fact you were dying, [[Yank the Dog's Chain|suddenly you had you chain jerked like that]]. I would.

== Doctor Who's in the same universe as [[Tim Burton|Tim Burton's]] [[Alice in Wonderland (Filmfilm)|Alice in Wonderland]] ==

They were giving eachother [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Vulcan kisses!]]

* Supporting this is the Time Lords' easy regeneration and mild psychic powers, which could imply they're a kind of Angel descended from Adam, and the Daleks' technical focus possibly meaning they're a form of Lilim. The Time Lords' intelligence is similar to that of Rei and Kaworu, except evolved over time without Lilim competition, not created.

When Susan was seen in ''The Five Doctors'', she did not appear to have any ties to Gallifrey. We did not find out where she'd been, what she'd been doing, or what happened to her between leaving the TARDIS and appearing in the above episode. Afterwards, she disappears again. The "no ties to Gallifrey" is the important bit. If she has no real ties to Gallifrey, or if she's in a regeneration that's more devious then her grandfather normally is, then ''she may not have had to fight in the War'', and may be alive.

So, does this affect [[Doctor Who (TV)|NuWho]] at all? Does it, hell!

Okay, so Amy ran off to go on adventures without Rory, and Rory just wanted to stay home and have a normal life. Perhaps the Doctor stole the TARDIS to see the universe, but the Master didn't want to leave Gallifrey like all the rest of the Time Lords. The difference is that Rory didn't have any way to get his fiance back (and so he had to wait for the Doctor to show up again), but the Master DID have ways to leave his planet when he realized he might leave the Doctor for good. The threat Rory faced was that Amy would leave him for the promise of an exciting life with the Doctor, and the threat the Master faced was that the Doctor would simply leave him for this new, exciting life (so it's basically the same as with Amy, but without the possible new love interest).

[http://tardisadventures.tumblr.com/post/2509064332 This blog post explains it beautifully.]

** She opposed Rassilon's plan. The Doctor taught her well. Also, Rassilon probably overthrew her after ''[[The Farmer and Thethe Viper|she had him resurrected]]''.

*** There was also (I believe) mention of a "President Romana" in one of the Annuals released way back in 2005 or 2006.

** She's a Time Lady, looks pretty old, tries to help Wilf save the Doctor's life -- andlife—and the Doctor's reaction when he sees her.. Sorry for not making this clearer, for people who haven't seen the episode yet. But if you have, you'll understand.

* '''...Ace.'''

* '''...Flavia.'''

* '''...the Rani.'''

* '''...Jenny.'''

* '''...the Master.'''

** Whenever she appears onscreen, the TARDIS's theme starts playing.

They all left town expecting yet another alien invasion, which never happened because [[Meanwhile in Thethe Future|the Doctor was in the Victorian era instead]], and were roundly mocked by pundits/comedians/etc.; as a result many or most of them stay in London over Christmas 2009.

* [[Word of God]] ([[Russell T. Davies]]) confirms this. He said "I've always known the Time Lords were evil."

{{quote| '''Jenny:''' Really, Dad, if they're not breathing and there's no pulse, you ''always'' assume they're dead!}}

{{quote| '''The Doctor''': I watched it happen. I MADE it happen! }}

*** He did wear the blue suit to The Library.

== Sometime during his tenure, the Eleventh Doctor will meet [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Geronimo |Geronimo]]. ==

How do you continue a series, when your [[The Nth Doctor]] excuse has a limit? Replace him with a similar character which would nevertheless allow the show to move in a different direction. It's plausible that Jenny could aqquire a TARDIS, a sonic screwdriver and essentially become a female version of the Doctor. Personally I'm against her replacing the Doctor himself, but wouldn't objecty to her starring in [[K 9K9|yet]] [[The Sarah Jane Adventures (TV)|another]] [[Torchwood (TV)|spin-off]].

* My theroy is that the Nightmare Child was a sentient, psychic nebula (about the size of the largest stars). It would travel though time and space looking for planets with sentient life, then consume them. It's psychic powers would cause fear, pain and insanity, the closer you were the worse you felt, able to affect even daleks and TARDISES. It left temporal scars, where returning to a point in space where it had been, even thousands of years later, would cause you to go insane. Its name comes from :A. how it changed shape to reflect the infant forms of the creatures it was destroying, just to mess with them; and B. how, even decades before its arrival, nightmares causing fear and insanity would inflict the populace. if you were consumed by it, you would never die, you would be trapped in the never ending nightmare.

This may include some "Master vs. Timelords" or "Master&Doctor vs. Timelords" dynamics, because that just would be awesome, and the show needs a Big Baddie.

* A very LONG sequence of random numbers, letters, and symbols. Which is why it's unpronoucable to humans, it's so long and convoluded we're bound to get it wrong. The name he told River was the only part of it that humans can make out easily:Who.

{{quote| "The birthers ought to take it a step further. Is there any real proof that Obama was ever born? I mean, he may have been delivered to Earth by galactic terrorists who see this presidency as the first step to subjugating the human race."}}

In a Time War, what worse thing (for the Doctor at least) could there be than a child, representing a whole new generation of potentially evil Time Lords? As for why she's appearing--andappearing—and apparently was created--aftercreated—after the War ended, well, [[Timey-Wimey Ball|wibbly wobbly you know the rest]].

== The Face of Boe founded a support group for recovering [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_addiction:Sexual addiction|sex addicts]]. ==

== Jack's butt is [[Bigger Onon the Inside]]. ==

* This is distinctly possible, though the Tenth talks about Regeneration with Wilf, it would explain why he was so put out by the idea - if she were just referring to him regeneration then why didn't Carmen say "your song is changing" or something?

== The Pan-universal Dalek killing bomb missed those Daleks in the Void ==

The Cult of Skaro were the only Daleks who were permitted to have imagination--toimagination—to learn to think like their enemies so they could come up with new and crueler ways of destroying them. The actions of Caan and Sec were carefully orchestrated to convince the Doctor that Daleks can be capable of good so that they can ask him for help and betray him when he opens the TARDIS' door to them. Caan knew (thanks to his adventures in space-time) exactly what would happen in the Crucible and got Davros and the other Daleks to play along, convincing the Doctor that he (well, ''he'' and ''he-her'') had defeated them.

== The Ood are descendants of the [[Dungeons and& Dragons|Mind Flayers]] ==

In case you were wondering how they arrived in [[The Verse|the Whoniverse]], [[A Wizard Did It|a Time Lord did it]]

* Dalek Cann might have been referring not to the events of [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E13 Journeys End|Journey's End]] but instead a future episode, where the Doctor ''does'' destroy all Daleks [[Killed Off for Real|for good]].

The Regenerations screw with the Doctor's memory quite severely. It's possible that he doesn't know his own age and has to reconstruct his age from the TARDIS's logs, his diaries (we see him keep them in several episodes) and any other clues he can find.

== [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E12 The Stolen Earth|The reality]] [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E13 Journeys End|bomb]] wasn't what was making [[Doctor Who (TV)/NS/Recap/S4 S30/E11 Turn Left|the stars go out]] ==

* He knew his younger self would be on the suspicious side, and that the absolute only way he could trust River would be if she knew something incredibly serious that he had never told anybody. This was the most serious thing he could come up with. Thus stable time loop is created.

*** That would depend on what that only time was, I guesss... end of his thirteenth regeneration? When he knows there's nothing more to lose (if there is anything to lose in the first place)? Or maybe just because he ''knows'' it's a Stable Time Loop. There's no other choice but to tell her.

Ater all how can a man who killed an invading alien with a ''satsuma'' possibly have any moral high ground over somebody who killed a man intended to destroy the universe? The Doctor is a bit morally stuck up, but surely he's not ''that'' blind. In a cut-scene from the final episode (one RTD says he likes to believe still happened) Doctor 10 gave 10.5 a piece of Tardis to grow into a whole one -once he messed around with the growth pattern a bit to make it happen a lot faster- the more I think about that the more convinced she is that calling it a "punishment" was all just a big excuse, if not a total assumption. Ten knew what he was like in the beginning and what Rose did for him - he wanted to give 10.5 that same chance at recovery - he's trying to "cure" his other self. (He and also provided them with a way to continue the Doctor's legacy in a universe where he didn't exist... plus, now Rose probably won't be hopping across the dimensional barriers trying to GET to him which saves us a lot of trouble in the long run...)

* I don’t think it was ever about punishment. It was about love. Love for Rose, and love for 10.5. Think about it 10.5 is both 10’s twin and his son (being partly Donna). That would make him the only family he has (since he doesn’t know Jenny survived). So out of love he not only gives Rose exactly what she always wanted (a Doctor who will always stay with her), but also gives 10.5 the best life he could (a life w/ Rose).

It also explains why he said goodbye to all of his companions - he knew that most of them did not get closure when they left and he wasn't sure if he'd ever have another chance to really say goodbye.

Finally, it adds a new spin on his last line - "I don't want to go." It wasn't "I don't want to regenerate." - It was "I don't want to die!". And he didn't.

Over the millennia, they all had their own reasons to become human, but they never rediscovered their true selves and lived and died human. Which means [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror|you could be a Time Lord]] [[Paranoia Fuel|and never know it.]]

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We know that {{spoiler|The Silence religious order was formed}} to kill The Doctor and that the aliens themselves are a large part of it. When The Doctor went to the Demon's Run base to rescue Amy, {{spoiler|who was kidnapped several episodes prior}}, they were in the 52nd Century. What if, in addition to {{spoiler|The Question}}, they want to kill The Doctor because he {{spoiler|caused the human race to kill any Silence on sight and drove them off Earth? They seek revenge on The Doctor for what he did to them centuries before in [[Doctor Who (TV)/Recap/S32 E2/E02 Day of the Moon|Day of the Moon]].}}